Our approach optimizes quality of life for patients with movement disorders, including programs specially designed for Parkinson's disease patients.

We spend the time required to understand the movement disorder experience of each individual patient, working step by step through the symptoms, listening to patients tell us what they've been struggling with and then providing a customized treatment plan.

We work closely with the patient's primary care physician and/or referring neurologist, providing recommendations for care and follow-up information to appointments.

We are dedicated to helping patients manage their symptoms, regain function or control over their movements and maintain a quality lifestyle. For people living with Parkinson's disease, we offer OhioHealth Delay the Disease™, a life-changing exercise program designed to correct disease-specific physical challenges.

Why Choose OhioHealth for Movement Disorders

Patients treated for movement disorders at OhioHealth have access to the latest treatments to help improve function and quality of life. Led by our movement disorders specialist, David A. Hinkle, MD, PhD, OhoiHealth offers a multidisciplinary approach to patient care.

We have a broad spectrum of focused expertise with a team that includes these specialists:

Why Choose OhioHealth for Parkinson's Disease

In addition to providing medical and physical therapy treatment options to people with Parkinson's disease, OhioHealth's movement disorders specialist works in collaboration with OhioHealth Delay the Disease.

OhioHealth Delay the Disease is a nationwide program developed locally by David Zid, BA, ACE, APG, and Jackie Russell, RN, BSN, CNOR. It offers a Parkinson's-specific method of exercise that helps to:

Target Parkinson's symptoms

Empower participants to take control of the disease with daily exercise

Our Movement Disorders Specialist

David A. Hinkle, MD, PhD, ABPN, is a neurologist who is fellowship-trained in movement disorders. Dr. Hinkle received his neurology and movement disorders training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He came to OhioHealth after serving 10 years on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurology as a movement disorders specialist and biomedical researcher. He is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He focuses on the diagnosis and management of neurological conditions that include Parkinson’s disease, tremor, dystonia, chorea, myoclonus, ataxia, tics and gait disorders. Dr. Hinkle leads the OhioHealth Movement Disorders Clinic. He is focused on patient care, and he is committed to working closely with you and your physicians to find a successful treatment that will improve your quality of life.

Delay the Disease Expert (Parkinson's Disease)

Jackie Russell, RN, BSN, CNOR, is Program Development Coordinator OhioHealth Delay the Disease. In her 30-year career as a registered nurse, she has dedicated interest in the treatment of Parkinson’s patients and their caregivers/care-partners. Credentialed with professional achievement in perioperative nursing (CNOR) and ACLS certified, she is a graduate of The Ohio State University and has been employed in a variety of surgical nursing specialties. Touched by Parkinson’s disease when her mother-in-law battled the disease, Jackie became professionally involved in the Parkinson’s disease community, including co-founding Delay the Disease.

Diagnosis of Movement Disorders

OhioHealth experts are experienced at identifying the early and distinguishing symptoms/signs of movement disorders. This is critical to the diagnostic and management process, since treatments can vary substantially between the different types of movement disorders.

At OhioHealth, a diagnostic meeting for movement disorders includes:

One-on-one patient consultation to perform a history and neurologic examination

Identification of the diagnostic possibilities and the approach to their laboratory and/or imaging work-up

Education about the diagnostic possibilities

Discussion of the treatment plan

Treatment of Movement Disorders

Movement disorders treated at OhioHealth include but are not limited to:

A solution for
hope and an improved life

OhioHealth Delay the
Disease™
is a life-changing wellness program designed to empower those living with
Parkinson’s disease. The program is founded on evidence-based, structured
exercise routines that are focused on strength training and correcting
disease-specific physical challenges. They work towards retraining the mind and
body.

The empowering results may
include:

being able to move normally in a crowd

being able to get out of bed or rise from a chair
independently

being able to get dressed independently

being able to live without worry that symptoms are obvious,
i.e. with a sense of normality

About Parkinson’s
symptom-specific exercises

OhioHealth Delay the Disease fitness plans
are adapted to all levels of Parkinson’s disease, valuable to newly diagnosed
and progressed states alike. The program focuses on symptom-specific exercises
targeting:

Altered balance

Bradykinesia
(slowing of all movements)

Depression

Diminished voice
volume

Freezing

Masked facial
expressions

Rigidity
(stiffness)

Stooped posture

Walking/gait

Key components of the Parkinson’s symptom-specific exercises include:

Breaking down automatic actions into individual small muscle
movements to accomplish a task

Moving bigger in exercise — because those with Parkinson’s
disease move small —thus retraining the brain to get back to its once normal
movement

We offer a wide range of fitness programs, including one-on-one sessions
with Delay the Disease founder, David Zid, and free
and fee-based group classes for all fitness
levels to help accomplish daily tasks.